pork barrel in English

noun
1
the use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes.
political pork barrel for the benefit of their respective sponsors
noun

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1. This was called "pork barrel" spending.

2. " This bill is a "" pork barrel "" proposition. "

3. This is known as the politics of the pork barrel.

4. Money for water projects is a common type of Washington pork barrel.

5. Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.

6. Who vowed never to offer up that special pork - barrel project for your hometown?

7. Many refuse to accept Federal pork barrel dollars devoted to convincing them to convert to other crops.

8. The civil service system is set up in the process of fighting against the favoritism and the "pork barrel" system.

9. For the first time in decades, congresspeople aren't trading pork barrel projects and tax breaks –they're negotiating steep budget cuts.

10. With the UDCs we find a very straight forward pork barrel subsidizing of particular development capital interests through the use of public resources.

11. A legend on Capitol Hill, he was famous - his critics say infamous - for bringing huge amounts of federal "pork barrel" projects back to Alaska.

12. Once a selling point for lawmakers, congressionally directed spending – otherwise known as earmarks or "pork barrel" projects – is becoming a liability for many incumbents in Campaign 20

13. But the Johnson government’s latest moves – its freeports wheeze, its new EU treaty violation, its resort to the pork barrel – reveal that the Buccaneering actually begins at home.